Weaving heddle



Aug. 2, 1938. P. DATI-IE 2,125,425

WEAVING HEDDLE Filed Juiy s, 19:56

Patented Aug. 2, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WEAVING HEDDLE Paul Dathe, Hartha, Germany Application July 3, 1936, Serial No. 88,885 In Germany July 5, 1935 1 Claim. (Cl. 139-95) The present invention relates to weaving hed- The term double Wire employed herein is dles and more particularly to heddles made from intended to mean either a single wire bent in U unsoldered double wire twisted together. form with the arms of the U closely adjacent each Weaving heddles made from unsoldered double other, or alternatively two separate wires laid 5 wires twisted together are already known. It is together substantially in parallel. further already known to make such heddles from 'Ihe accompanying drawing shows the carryonly one unsoldered wire, bent into U-shape, and ing out of the new method of manufacture by ilthus having double shanks, and to form the lustrating two stages of the work and also the middle eye directly when twisting together the finished heddle.

double wire. Going more into detail, the manu- Figure 1 shows the rst working operation by facture of these known heddles is eiected by the which the middle eye is finished and the double double wire first being bent round in the end wire is twisted together over its whole length. portions, and thereupon the middle portion of Figure 2 shows the second operation, in which the double wire is twisted together and at the the end portions of the heddle are bent round to same time the middle eye and the end eyes form the end eyes.

formed. It is a drawback of this method that Figure 3 shows a finished heddle made by the the making of the heddles is comparatively method according to Figs. l and. 2. troublesome, can only be done mechanically with The double wire 2, 3 bent into U-shape, or condiiculty, and furthermore, in the end eyes the sisting of two parallel separate wires, is twisted shanks of the double wire are not twisted totogether by rotating a middle eye pin l com- 20 gether, but lie more or less parallel s'ide by side, paratively closely up to the points 4 and 5, at whereby the defet OCCllrS that the tWO Wire which, at first, stationary pins are inserted, so as Shanks of the end eyes easily become bent and to make the middle eye B, and after removing the thereby have a greater distance from each other pins inserted at 4 and 5, twisted 'together someand become unsuitable for weaving, especially what more loosely over its who1e length up to with closely set warp threads. the clamps 1, 8. In a second working operation,

The invention relates to a method 0f making the ends of the twisted wires are bent round end weaving heddles of unsoldered double wire twisted eye pins 9, lll of suitable form to make the end together, which avoids these drawbacks, and aceyes, the free ends of the wires held fast in cording to the invention is characterized by the clamps Il, I2, and by rotating the end eye pins feature that the double wire, bent into U-shape 9, In, the free ends of the wire are twisted toa or consisting of two parallel separate wires, is gether with the main part of the heddle or met twisted together and et the Same time the twisted into it. yAny projecting ends of the wires nnddle eye termed and only then bent round are preferably out off, so that the finished heddle at the two ends to form the end eyes and the free has the form and construction Shown in Fig 3 ends of the wire connected to the heddle. By or a similar one, in which also in the end eyes 35 this method, rst, the advantage is obtained that the heddles can be made in a particularly simple the double Wwe 1S.tw1.sted together' and certain manner mechanically and entirely If the double Wire 1s not to be twlsted together 10 automatically. Further, the advantage is obm the pains fomneme end eyes 1t 1S only nec' tained that the nished heddles made by the essary, without altering the method, to have the method have also considerable advantages over clamps 1 and 8 Connected correspondingly nearer the known constructions. If, for instance, the t0 the middle eyemethod is so carried out that the double wire is I declare that What I Claim iSitwisted together over its whole length before A WeaVIlg heddle formed 0f a plurality 0f WI'eS the bending round of the end portions, also the and havinga main portion and an end loop port end eyes are twisted together in the nished tion, said wires being twisted together throughheddles, whereby a heddle of especially great out the main portion and the end loop portion, strength is obtained, and any gaping apart of and the wire ends being twisted about the main the wire Shanks in the end eyes with the draw- DOIOD 130 0105 the 100D- backs associated therewith is avoided. PAUL DATHE. 50 

